Today I first read about a boy named Youssif.
I found a new story where this little 5 year old boy met his superhero, Spider-man. Cute, because a boy met is hero, but boys will often meet Spiderman when they visit Univesal Studios. Why is this 5 year old iraqi boy a media icon?
Living in the information age, I must know every fact. So I asked my friend Google. What google responded with made me cry.
Youssif was an average kid, living in Iraq, playing outside as most 5 year old enjoy.
For no apparent reason he was approached my masked men, doused in gasoline, and set on fire. The men fled and were never apprehended. I am no saint, but it bothers me greatly that I share the planet with people so despicable as to light a child on fire. This child can be nothing but innocent. I am so saddened by this I am beside myself.
I am a father, and if my son were tortured in this way, my anguish would not no limits. He lived, but now he bears the disfigurement these people found it in their heart to give him.
On the other hand, he has come to America, and hopefully that indicates that our best surgeons will work to give him back hs sweet smile. Please let that be the case.
I could go into more details of how his mother is wracked with guild for letting a young boy play in his own yard. Or her reaction to seeing the pain and suffering as her son burned. Do I need to? Do not every one of your hearts ache for this young boy, for his parents? Why should this world know such strife, such terror??
Why attack a child? He doesnt know your politics! He doesnt know what a fundamentalist agenda is! He likes peanut butter, cartoons, things like coloring. He world was simple, and someone changed that.